Thursday, December 03, 2020
Remarkable Hartness 2
Hartness on Natural Law:
The progress of each individual is of greatest importance, but let us get over the notion that the greatest positions are those of authority over other men. There are many such positions which keep down the best there is in a man. A position of authority is frequently one of most exacting servitude. It is seldom a comfortable position. Each one should strive to succeed in his own particular way and his own natural work. It is not true that all men have an equal fitness for this or that position. Some men are built for doing things, others for directing, recording, accounting, and in various ways co-operating with the real workers. Some are born inventors and others work out their greatest possibilities in constructing. Some are endowed for mathematics or finance or mechanics, and in various other ways individuals differ in fitness for the various positions. To preach that it is dishonorable to work with the hands, and that dignity goes only with the position in which the pencil is used instead of the implements that change the form of things; that positions of authority are the best — all such talk is contemptible stuff. To say that the worker is the underdog, that he is ever envious of and oppressed by the man who directs the work — all this is a malicious libel that should be struck out of existence by a more general knowledge of the real facts.Add this to the previous three statements of the same ETERNAL ALL-IMPORTANT TRUTH.
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, skill-estate
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